Berlin: I Had A Camera

Berlin was one of those cities that immediately, instinctively, gave me the sense that yes: I could live here. I would love to live here. An electrifying theatre and arts scene (as much for the diversity of the audience and the avid theatergoing culture as for the work itself), a stellar international (largely street food driven) food culture, and relative affordability across the board. More than anything, Berlin is a city that is living and making, rebuilding itself and full of people that have come there to create things. You feel that energy just walking around. IT'S NEAT. A few photos and a video after the jump, with more thoughts/images/video to come over the next few posts...

Oddly digitally jagged photo, but it fits the heavily-under-construction scene! This building is craziness. They're basically reconstructing a 19th century palace that was turned into a hulking Soviet monstrosity in the postwar period. The amount of re-defining, re-building that this city has been doing for years is quite stunning.

Self-portrait (one of a couple of attempts) at the Reichstag, which is pretty cool to start with but exceptionally stunning at sunset. That's how I spent my last evening in Berlin, and gang: EXTREMELY ENDORSED.

This isn't even really street art (which I'm sure will make its appearance in future posts on the city) but man, the street art scene in this town was ON POINT. Mostly I just liked that there blue poster there. It was KEEN!

Brecht! This photo is basically foreshadowing for a future post on theatre in Berlin. But also: how cool is it that tram stops have quotes by artists and intellectuals engraved into the wall (with a huge etching/drawing above 'em)? Answer: medium cool, B+